Tibet

DHARAMSALA, (PTI): Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, recognised by the Dalai Lama as the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibetan Buddhism and missing for over 22 years, today turned 28.
On the occasion, the Department of Information and International Relations of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamshala..

GUWAHATI, (REUTERS): The Dalai Lama arrived in Assam on Saturday ahead of a visit to neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, a region run by New Delhi but claimed by Beijing.
The Tibetan spiritual leader’s trip is expected to fuel tensions between India and China over strategic issues such as China’s..

Chinese police in Sichuan’s Ngaba county detained a Tibetan monk on Saturday after he launched a solo protest calling for freedom for Tibet in the first such protest reported in the county this year, sources said.
Lobsang Tsultrim, a young monk belonging to Ngaba’s Kirti monastery, was taken..

Tibetans traveling from northwest China’s Gansu province to attend a large religious gathering in neighboring Sichuan are being stopped at the border and told they may not proceed by car, sources in the region say.
No reasons were given for blocking the pilgrims’ journey to Kirti monastery in..

ULAANBAATAR, (REUTERS): Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Wednesday he has “no worries” about Donald Trump’s election as US president, adding that he expects the businessman will align his future policies with global realities.
The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s remarks..

BEIJING, (PTI): China today warned Mongolia of "serious repurcussions" to bilateral ties if it allowed the Dalai Lama to visit the country and allow the monk to engage in "separatist activities".
The 81-year-old monk is due to start a four-day visit to predominantly Buddhist Mongolia this evening..

Police in southwestern China’s Sichuan province have detained a second monk living at Thangkor Sockstang monastery, taking him into custody after threatening his roommates at gunpoint and forcing one of them to the ground, according to a local source.
Lobsang Sherab, aged about 35 and a worker..

High within a Himalayan valley, snow-capped peaks rising all around, the nation of Tibet is alive. Houses made from mud and wood crowd together in lines and in the paths that run between, Tibetan prayer flags blow in the wind. The phrase “tashi delek” echoes through the streets as neighbors..

Holding the Chinese national flag and carrying photos of Chinese national leaders, Tibetan farm women marched this week outside Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa to protest the confiscation by authorities of their farmland, sources in the region and in exile said.
Over 100 women from Gachoe village..

Police in northwestern China’s Gansu province attacked a group of Tibetan villagers at the beginning of June after the Tibetans, residents of a township near a sacred mountain, protested the mining of gold at the site, according to a Tibetan exile source.
The Tibetans had gathered at Khelpa..

Authorities in southwestern China’s Sichuan province have sentenced a Tibetan monk and writer to seven and a half years in prison on unspecified charges, but sources told RFA’s Tibetan service that he was sentenced for "sharing government secrets and attempting to divide the nation."
Jo..

A Tibetan monk enrolled in Sichuan’s restive Kirti monastery was taken into custody by police on Monday after staging a solo protest in nearby Ngaba town, sources in the region said.
Lobsang Thubten, believed to be in his 20s, was detained shortly after launching his protest at about 3:30 p.m...

Authorities in the Chinese capital are holding Tibetan poet and author Tsering Woeser and her dissident writer husband Wang Lixiong under house arrest during a visit to Beijing by a U.S. non-government group, Woeser said via Twitter.
Wang and Woeser have been prevented from leaving their Beijing..

Authorities in western China’s Sichuan province have freed a senior Tibetan religious figure jailed since 2009 for resisting political reeducation campaigns at his monastery, returning him to his home in uncertain health, Tibetan sources say.
Buruna Rinpoche, the spiritual teacher of a community..

At least ten Tibetan government workers were detained by authorities on Friday in northwestern China’s Gansu province when they protested the loss of their jobs amid allegations of corruption in the hiring of replacements, sources in the region and in exile said.
The protesters were taken into..

A Tibetan writer sentenced to three years in prison in February for writing material deemed politically sensitive by China’s government has appealed his prison term, saying that China’s constitution protects the right to express one’s views in writing.
Shokjang, also called Druklo, was..

Authorities in southwestern China’s Sichuan province have released a Tibetan man from prison after he served a seven-year sentence for activities opposing Beijing’s rule in Tibetan areas, sources in the region said.
Joleb Jigme, aged around 40, returned on March 21 to his home in Ngaba (in..

Tibet’s diaspora chose a new political leader on Sunday as tens of thousands cast ballots for a government-in-exile.
The Tibet Sun and Phayul.com reported on Monday that incumbent Lobsang Sangay has a substantial lead over parliamentary speaker Penpa Tsering in the race for Sikyong, or the top..

Authorities in southwestern China’s Sichuan province are pressuring the family of a Tibetan monk who burned himself to death on Monday to protest Chinese rule, ordering them to say the protester had died in a house fire, Tibetan sources in the region and in exile said.
Kalsang Wangdu, a monk of..

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